Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dysdera  Latreille, 1804   214 species

Dysdera festai  Caporiacco, 1929

Description
Male

Bulb 1.2 mm long. Prosoma 2.6-2.9 mm long.

Female

Prosoma bright orange, 2.8-3.6 mm long. Prosoma and sternum smooth, covered with punctures. Eyes: anteriors less than 0.5 diameter apart. Chelicerae with 4 small teeth. Legs: femur spineless, tibia III with one prolateral spine, tibia IV with one ventral spine, metatarsus IV with 4 spines.

Additional information

In deciduous forests, in litter.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Rhodes), Turkey
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Bellvert et al., 2024) |||
References

Bellvert A, Dimitrov D, Zamani A, Arnedo M A (2024) Integrating museum collections and molecules reveals genus-level synonymy and new species in red devil spiders (Araneae, Dysderidae) from the Middle East and Central Asia. European Journal of Taxonomy 921: 201-235 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Brignoli P M (1980b) Some new or interesting eastern Mediterranean Dysderidae and Agelenidae (Araneae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 35: 75-82 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-02-2024 Image insert
14-02-2024 Distribution insert Detail
14-02-2024 Distribution update Detail
07-05-2013 Image insert